now the time has come to leave

So my journey begins. From the south coast of Sussex I shall travel anticlockwise around our little world. My first stop will be Wales.

I have never visited Wales. As a child I remember my father driving us across a bridge across a river and back again - just so we could say we had been there. But I have never stopped. Never set foot on Welsh soil. Never seen what differentiates it from life
on my side of the divide.

My expectations of Wales lead me to believe I will encounter dragons and song and dual language signs. Mines and misery. Slag heaps and secrets. Deep valleys and high peaks. Daffodils and leeks and sheep.

I will report my findings once I have read my way through Wales.

the circumnavigator